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Greetings, dear readers!
I am so incredibly happy and excited! I’m going to this year’s Graspop Metal Meeting. I finally get to see my all time favorite band, Evanescence! Not only that, but I’ll be staying for the whole festival, and get to enjoy bands like Axel Rudi Pell, Five Finger Death Punch, Rammstein, Alter Bridge, Epica and In Flames. On that occasion, I’ve made a playlist with the bands that I’m definitely going to see. You can find the list here on Spotify. I will of course see a lot of other stuff, but my main goal is to see these bands. The festival is from Thursday 15th to Sunday 18th, so it will be four days of pure metal epicness. Please let me know what you think of the list, and which other bands you think would make for an incredible memory.

“Do what you, what you want If you have a dream for better”
(What You Want – Evanescence)

Hey! It’s been a month since I last posted. I’ve thought a lot about writing something of finishing something I’ve already started, but I never got around to it. Now, I have a new idea! I “waste” a lot of time on a meme website called 9GAG. Right now, someone’s started a trend of making a list of “need to know” songs and putting their list on 9GAG. I thought I should hop on the train and make such a list of my own. The first one that started this trend (that I noticed, at least), had a rule not to include more than one song per artist/band, and so I wanted to do the same, but realized that it was too difficult for some bands, so I only tried to not include too many. I will just dive right into it, with no arrangement to the order in which I list the songs I feel you need to know. (of course this will be mainly rock/metal, since that’s my forte, but I might include some other songs as well, if I feel like you really need to know/listen to them).
I’ve made the list in Spotify, so you can go in and have a listen right away. Might get back to this post later and make a YouTube-playlist of it as well, but for now Spotify will have to do.

Disturbed – The Sound Of Silence / Down With The Sickness

Evanescence – Bring Me To Life / My Immortal

Paramore – Misery Business

Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit

Avenged Sevenfold – Nightmare / Afterlife

Black Sabbath – Iron Man

AC/DC – Thunderstruck

Foo Fighers – The Best Of You

Bullet For My Valentine – Tears Don’t Fall

Rage Against The Machine – Killing In The Name

Slipknot – Psychosocial / Duality

Kings of Leon – Sex On Fire

Royal Blood – Better Stangers

Linkin Park – Numb / Faint

Machine Head – Darkness Within / Davidian

Korn – Thoughtless

Coldplay – Fix You

Imagine Dragons – Radioactive

Helloween – Mr. Torture

Halestorm – Love Bites (So Do I)

Ghost B.C. – Cirice

Dimmu Borgir – Gateways

Five Finger Death Punch – Coming Down / House Of The Rising Sun

Audioslave – Show Me How To Live

Soundgarden – Live To Rise

Drowning Pool – Bodies

The Cranberries – Zombie

Brandi Carlile – The Story

Deftones – Change (In The House Of Flies)

AWOLNATION – Sail

Johnny Cash – Hurt

Dream Theater – A Nightmare To Remember

Nomy – Cocaine

Radiohead – Creep

Tribal Ink – Refugee

Avantasia – The Scarecrow

The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris

Amy Lee – Lockdown

Ed Sheeran – I See Fire

System Of A Down – B.Y.O.B.

Volbeat – Still Counting

Alice Cooper – Poison

Metallica – Enter Sandman

Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine

Breaking Benjamin – So Cold

Iron Maiden – Fear Of The Dark

Dio – Rainbow In The Dark / Holy Diver

Rammstein – Du Hast

Device/Lzzy Hale – Close My Eyes Forever

Lady Gaga – Til It Happens To You

Muse – Plug In Baby

Rise Against – Hero Of War

Chevelle – The Red

Thee Days Grace – I Hate Everything About You

Axel Rudi Pell – Glory Night

In Flames – Alias

My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade

Green Day – 21 Guns

Elton John – Candle In The Wind

There’s just a handful of these songs that I don’t know every single word to, but they still evoke something in me that makes me think everyone should hear them. These songs are iconic to me, representing the band, the genre and the time period they were produced in perfectly. A few of these are covers, but I included them because they are so good that I feel they both do justice to the original artists and the songs, in addition to the covers being iconic themselves.

Links to the two lists that I found already, there are some very good songs in there, and some I have yet to check out.

Am I missing something obvious to you? Would you perhaps replace the song I’ve chosen by a(n) artist/band? What would be your most iconic/”need to know”-songs? Please let me know in the comment section.

“So paint it black and take it backLets shout it loud and clearDo you fight it to the endWe hear the call toTo carry onWe’ll carry on”
(Welcome To The Black Parade – My Chemical Romance)

A lot has happened lately. Sad, tragic events driven by hate, evil, and even carelessness. The mass-shooting in Orlando, among other things. The revealing of decades of sexual assault among people in a community in my home county, is another. On top of that, several accidental deaths of people, gone too soon. Actually, the last year has been just all messed up. I don’t have any words to describe the feeling I have, really. Many of my favorite artists have made some great music addressing hate, disaster, and death, and so, I have made a playlist of songs that deal with these topics, that maybe can put words and sound to these feelings. You can subscribe to my Spotify list or go check it out on YouTube. If you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them. Take care of each other.

Disturbed – Who Taught You How To Hate

Evanescence – My Heart Is Broken

Avenged Sevenfold – Tonight The World Dies

Machine Head – Damage Inside

Five Finger Death Punch – Coming Down

Alter Bridge – Blackbird

Amy Lee feat. Dave Eggar – Lockdown

Korn – Thoughtless

Avenged Sevenfold – Almost Easy

Evanescence – Together Again

Lady Gaga – Til It Happens To You

Seether feat. Amy Lee – Broken

Avenged Sevenfold – Save Me

Machine Head – Who We Are

Slipknot – Dead Memories

Evanescence – Oceans

We Are The Fallen – Don’t Leave Me Behind

Avenged Sevenfold – Seize The Day

Linkin Park – No More Sorrow

Evanescence – My Last Breath

Machine Head – Is There Anybody Out There?

“Tell me now, who taught you how to hate?Cause it isn’t in your blood, not a part of what you’re made”
(Who Taught You How To Hate – Disturbed)

Hi there! I want to say first and foremost that I really appreciate my readers, and I hope I make it worth coming back to this site, because all of you make it worthwhile for me to write.

However, I write this blog mainly to share great music and to express myself in the way I know how – through music (which I can’t make myself). Today I want to blow off some steam, and yesterday I made myself a new Spotify-list that I decided right now that I want to share, because I’ve been pretty much happily head banging all day, and this list is what keeps me sane (in addition to my boyfriend) whilst writing on my Bachelor’s thesis. Here’s the link to the list on my Spotify-channel, and below is the actual list, in case you don’t have Spotify and want to make it yourself (in alphabetical order after artist and album):

Anthrax – The Devil You Know

Atreyu – Long Live

Audioslave – Show Me How To Live

Avenged Sevenfold – Critical Acclaim

Avenged Sevenfold – Unbound (The Wild Ride)

Avenged Sevenfold – Beast And The Harlot

Avenged Sevenfold – Blinded In Chains

Avenged Sevenfold – Shepherd Of Fire

Avenged Sevenfold – Hail To The King

Avenged Sevenfold – Doing Time

Avenged Sevenfold – Nightmare

Avenged Sevenfold – Welcome To The Family

Avenged Sevenfold – Natural Born Killer

Avenged Sevenfold – God Hates Us

Avenged Sevenfold – Unholy Confessions

Avenged Sevenfold – Chapter Four

Avenged Sevenfold – Desecrate Through Reverence

Avenged Sevenfold – Second Heartbeat

Blinded Colony – Bedtime Prayers

Dead By Sunrise – Crawl Back In

Device – Vilify

Devilskin – Elvis Presley Circle Pit

Dimmu Borgir – Gateways

Disturbed – Warrior

Disturbed – Immortalized

Disturbed – Who Taught You How To Hate

Disturbed – Indestructible

Disturbed – Voices

Disturbed – Stupify

Disturbed – Down With The Sickness

Disturbed – Stricken

Disturbed – The Vengeful One

Drowning Pool – Bodies

Five Finger Death Punch – My Nemesis

Five Finger Death Punch – Dying Breed

Five Finger Death Punch – Here To Die

Five Finger Death Punch – Burn MF

Flyleaf – Call You Out

Halestorm – I Am The Fire

Halestorm – Daughters Of Darkness

KoЯn – Thoughtless

Linkin Park – Papercut

Linkin Park – One Step Closer

Machine Head – Hallowed Be Thy Name

Machine Head – Killers & Kings

Machine Head – Ghosts Will Haunt My Bones

Machine Head – Night Of Long Knives

Machine Head – Eyes Of The Dead

Machine Head – Take Me Through The Fire

Machine Head – Bulldozer

Machine Head – I Am Hell (Sonata in C#)

Machine Head – Be Still And Know

Machine Head – Pearls Before The Swine

Rage Against The Machine – Bulls On Parade

Rage Against The Machine – Killing In The Name

Slipknot – Sulfur

Slipknot – People=Shit

Slipknot – The Heretic Anthem

Slipknot – (sic)

Slipknot – Eyeless

This list is 60 songs (at the current time, at least!), and by Spotify’s calculations, 4 hours and 40 minutes of heaviness. No, I didn’t include Evanescence in this one, I thought some of my lists might repeat themselves if I were to include them in all of them. This one I decided to call “Heavy Shit”, and might be added to over time, and some songs might even be removed as well, so keep checking in. (I might forget to add to this “physical” list, but I will try to remember). This might be somewhat like my anger nurturing list, but mostly I added these songs for the great head banging-factor and overall heaviness (okay, I might be a bit angry and frustrated over my paper, and that’s why I need these songs, but they are awesome to listen to anyway). Would love for you to come with heavy suggestions too, if you think some songs are missing; I might even add them.

“Let the right one inYa gotta go with the devil you know”
(The Devil You Know – Anthrax)

“I find the answers aren’t so clearWish I could find a way to disappearAll these thoughts they make no senseI find bliss in ignoranceNothing seems to go awayOver and over again”[…]“I need a little room to breatheCause I’m one step closer to the edgeAnd I’m about to break”
(One Step Closer – Linkin Park)

Hi! Now, for the post on Five Finger Death Punch, I’ve chosen Coming Down, off the album American Capitalist (2011). The music video contains strong images, so this might be hard to watch for some people. Here are the lyrics, and below is the music video.

This song has a very strong message, which I thing is very important to get out to people. That’s one of the reasons I chose to blog about this song, but obviously also because I really liked it.
The lyrics and the music video fits together, and the music video tells the stories of two young people with problems that led up to their suicide, as we saw in the start of the song, but which was prevented in the end by a “friend”. The lyrics, as I said, presents a strong message, and I like them a lot. There’s not much more to say about them, because the theme is so important, that it speaks for itself. The lyrics are simply just a brilliant way of expressing something so sad and important.
The song itself is good too, I like the build up from the verses to the refrain, and the refrain just kicks ass, it really brings out the lyrics great too. I especially like the drums in this one, and, of course, the guitar solo. It’s just a great song with great lyrics and a very important message.

“Was there ever any questionOn how much I could take?You kept feeding me with bullshitHoping I would break”
(Coming Down – Five Finger Death Punch)

Hey! So, I have some great news here… I’ve wanted to tell you for so long… for some time ago, my friend and I ordered tickets to the Avenged Sevenfold concert in Oslo, Norway in November! Yes, you read right, AVENGED SEVENFOLD! If that wasn’t enough, the support bands for this concert is Five Finger Death Punch AND Device! So, yeah, I’m super excited, and I wanted to share this good news with you (and make you envy me a little). BUT, not only that, I decided to make a big deal out of it on this blog, so for the next three posts, I will be dealing with songs from these three bands, starting with Avenged Sevenfold, of course.
ALSO: Avenged Sevenfold comes out with their sixth album on August 27th titled Hail to the King, and Five Finger Death Punch is coming out with their fourth album on July 30th titled The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1. For those of you who don’t know, Device is a newly formed industrial metal band, with David Draiman from Disturbed in the front, and they published their self titled debut album (Device) earlier this year (2013). So now you might form a vision of how this might sound.

This means there’s a lot of more good music coming on this blog soon, so stay tuned for more music and awesomeness.

“Come back to me, it’s almost easy”“I’m losing the fight, I’ve treated you so wrong, now let me make it right”(Almost Easy – Avenged Sevenfold)

Hi! I feel this has been a long day, and that is why I put together this “little” playlist of songs. This is just in the alphabetical order by artist, so mix and listen, if you’ve had a long day too (or not, this music is awesome anyway!).

12 Stones – Enemy

Avenged Sevenfold – Critical Acclaim

Avenged Sevenfold – Desecrate Through Reverence

Avenged Sevenfold – Unholy Confessions

Breaking Benjamin – Breakdown

Corroded – My Hollow Shell

Evanescence – Going Under

Evanescence – Sick

Evanescence – Sweet Sacrifice

Evanescence – Weight Of The World

Five Finger Death Punch – Dying Breed

Halestorm – Daughters Of Darkness

Korn – Thoughtless

Linkin Park – Faint

Linkin Park – Crawling

Linkin Park – One Step Closer

Machine Head – Darkness Within

Slipknot – Before I Forget

Slipknot – Duality

Slipknot – People=Shit

Slipknot – Psychosocial

Slipknot – (Sic)

Slipknot – Spit It Out

Three Days Grace – Overrated

Three Days Grace – Riot

Volbeat – Still Counting

“All of my hate cannot be bound, I will not be drowned by your thoughtless schemingSo, you can try to tear it down, beat me to the ground, I will see you screaming”
(Thoughtless – Korn)

Hey! Thought I might post a playlist, since it’s been so long since last time I did that.
Today I’ve decided to put together something to nurture the anger in you all, since it’s growing so well in me! -haha.
I chose some songs with aggressive playing and lyrics, so I hope you enjoy this little treat.Here is a link to the list on Spotify – for those who use it.

In random order, I present to you the list I call “Anger Nurturing” :

Korn – Thoughless

Linkin Park – Faint

Avenged Sevenfold – Desecrate Through Reverence

12 Stones – Enemy

Evanescence – Going Under

Slipknot – Duality

Three Days Grace – Overrated

Evanescence – Taking Over Me

Avenged Sevenfold – Critical Acclaim

Linkin Park – One Step Closer

Volbeat – Still Counting

We Are The Fallen – Burn

Evanescence – Everybody’s Fool

Three Days Grace – Riot

Paramore – Ignorance

Slipknot – People=Shit

The Pretty Reckless – Zombie

Evanescence – Call Me When You’re Sober

Linkin Park – From The Inside

12 Stones – Welcome To The End

Halestorm – I Miss The Misery

Avenged Sevenfold – Second Heartbeat

Slipknot – Psychosocial

Evanescence – Made Of Stone

Five Finger Death Punch – Dying Breed

Linkin Park – Given Up

Three Days Grace – I Hate Everything About You

Evanescence – Sick

Slipknot – Spit It Out

We Are The Fallen – Bury Me Alive

Three Days Grace – Goin’ Down

Evanescence – Sweet Sacrifice

12 Stones – Games You Play

Slipknot – Before I Forget

We Are The Fallen – Through Hell

Three Days Grace – Home

Evanescence – Weight Of The World

(Tried to make it varied, but it was a bit hard…)
Hope you liked it!

I seriously want to quote all songs, but I’m limiting myself to the first three…

“All of my hate cannot be bound, I will not be drowned by your thoughtless scheming”
(Thoughtless – Korn)

Hello there! Today’s song is Dying Breed by the American heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch. The song was published in 2009 in the album War Is The Answer. Here are the lyrics, enjoy!

(Really strict copyright policies for 5FDP on their songs on YouTube, and to replace the video I posted in the past, this was the best I could do, but it doesn’t ruin the song, I think it’s good enough).

Edit: I found the recorded version of the song, concealed as a song called “Not Like You” by Slipknot, even though Slipknot has no such song, and it definitely isn’t Slipknot playing. Anyways, for those who don’t have Spotify and can find it there, this is the best thing.

The drums is the strongest instrument in this one, and I like it. It makes the song heavy, aggressive and hard core, along with the growling. I can also clearly hear the bass in there too, which is great. The lyrics are pretty awesome, and the guitar solo rocks, as well do the few riffs included. “Just a dead man walking with a double barreled shotgun”. How genius is that?!? I even got the refrain stuck in my head now. Really like it!

“All I wanted was your honestySomething more than this, something more than meDeath can take me if I can’t be freeI’m not like you, I’m a dying breed”
(Dying Breed – Five Finger Death Punch)